Defeat of Hasdrubal Son of Gesco
On this occasion Scipio appears to have employed aScipio resolves on a general engagement, and alters his disposition so as to make the battle depend upon the Italians rather than the Spaniards. |
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Scipio resolves on a general engagement, and alters his disposition so as to make the battle depend upon the Italians rather than the Spaniards. |
1 Or, according to another reading "five stades." Livy, 28, 14, says “quingentos passus.”
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